47 most recommended books of 2008

December 22, 2008 9:00 am DrCris What to Read

Life Optimizer scoured Delicious popular and collated the books that got the most recommendations for 2008. As a result, he has collected a list of 47 highly endorsed books. This would be an excellent start for your 2009 reading plans.

I have reproduced the top twenty on the list. Read the rest of the list and more detail on the statistics here.

  1. 1984 by George Orwell (Read it)
  2. Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  3. The Bible by multiple authors (Read it)
  4. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Gave up on it)
  5. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  6. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  7. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (on TBR)
  8. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (Read it)
  9. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (on TBR)
  10. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (read it)
  11. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
  12. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  13. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Tried this one twice. Still on TBR)
  14. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Mount TBR)
  15. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Towering tower of TBR)
  16. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  17. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (TBR)
  18. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (TBR)
  19. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  20. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (TBR)

And yes, I admit that my to be read (TBR) pile is ridiculous.

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